Note: Microsoft has publicly disowned IE, but it is still relevant when testing what happens if a webpage is viewed with the Microsoft web browser on an older Windows version that wasn’t bundled with Edge. In Win32 in general (IE is part of Win32, but possibly with its own differences), total memory use includes memory … Read more
It means that the version of IE is 11 and the version of Trident is 7. For each IE version since at least IE 8, the Trident version has been the IE version – 4. So IE 8 had Trident/4.0.
The best resources are this blog post and this blog post. To sum up: Sign you package with an authenticode signature. Don’t be malware (I’m sure you got that covered). Logo your software (if it’s not a browser plug-in). This can be a frustrating process, so hang in there. Microsoft has not disclosed how many … Read more
If you want to set the compatibility mode in the browser itself and not in the html do the following Open IE 10 Press the ALT Key to bring up the IE Menubar Click on the Tools menu Click on compatibility view setting. Clicks check the box; display all the websites in compatibility view or … Read more
There currently is not a dedicated Cookie viewer in the IE11 F12 Developer tools. There are two possible workarounds: Inspecting cookies within the “Detailed view” in the Network tab Running ‘document.cookie’ in the Javascript console
Let’s assume all browsers we are interested in are Internet Explorer 8 or newer (e.g. IE5 has some terrible behaviour with caching headers). There is only ONE standards based way of controlling caching (introduced with HTTP/1.1) – the Cache-Control HTTP header. Since at least 1996 IE has been using an opt-out policy for caching HTTPS … Read more
It stores the presence or absence of a favicon in History. If you want to reset it, clear your History. Here is a comprehensive FAQ. Edit: Quoting the blog, calling it an extensive answer: why doesn’t the favicon for my site appear in IE7? This is a re-posting of a post originally published on 2007-03-01. … Read more
Yes, there’s still no XPath support in IE =/. For me, the most reliable way to use document.evaluate in every browser is, sadly, via a library. It’s called Wicked Good XPath and it’s a recent Google-authored rewrite of the old good JavaScript-XPath library. I’ve been using Wicked Good XPath since the release and have been … Read more
Installing the Chrome extension IE Tab did the job for me. It has the ability to auto-detect URLs so whenever I browse to our SharePoint it emulates Internet Explorer. Finally I can open Office documents directly from Chrome. You can install IETab for FireFox too.
So as I mentioned in my question above, Internet Explorer has some ttf support starting with version 9, but “only working when [fonts are] set to be installable”. Some background: …TrueType fonts have embedding “bits” which allow the creator of the font to decide the level of embedding that will be permitted. There are four … Read more